On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > we have been setting up freshmeat like repositories for machine learning > open source software ( http://mloss.org ) and data sets > ( http://mldata.org ) trying to make open source software/open data more > widely known within the machine learning community (also organizing > workshops and establishing in the ``biggest'' machine learning journal > http://jmlr.org).
yeap -- you've done great job! > I would wish to improve integration between the above repositories and > debian. So my question: Who is interested in packaging machine learning > packages? hm... I guess at least you: shogun, weka me: mvpa, scikit-learn, mlpy, vowpal-wabbit > Would it make sense to form a machine-learning maintainer > group (similar to debian med). may be... As Christian Kastner (new maintainer for libfann) pointed out, there is indeed lack of visibility for "machine learning in Debian". His concern was received few hours after I've pushed machine learning task into Debian science blend, so he got fascinated when I pointed him out to the freshly generated webpage. Since maintainer group requires people, atm it might be worth starting with a wiki page pointing to the blends task, and trying to formalize the longer standing goal for possible maintainer group (otherwise, without clear advantages, co-existence within debian-science seems to be logical way forward) > In addition, having heard Andrea Tille's talk about debian blends > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/machine-learning > I wonder if we could have pointers from mloss.org to the respective > debian packages/wnpp's etc. That would be great! Having interacted with NITRC.org (specific to my domain) Michael has improved our neuro.debian.net with icons/references/popcon for any project which is also listed at NITRC: e.g. http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/fsl.html Moreover, as you can see, it has links to corresponding blends (Med, Sci) tasks pages. On the other side (NITRC), they have "Associations" and anything present in NeuroDebian (as a representative of Debian at NITRC), is listed to be 'is part of' NeuroDebian: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/neurodebian/ IMHO it greatly improves visibility of Debian within the community of NITRC (primarily neuroscience and psychology people). So, could mloss.org get something similar? e.g. mentioning what software is known to be part of Debian or may be it is WNPP (i.e. was ITPed and might be coming to Debian)? In the long term, it would have been great if such inter-referencing between software portals, Debian blens, and Debian could become more pronounced at debian.org proper (e.g. packages listing etc). -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
